Title Realist ecstasy : religion, race, and performance in American literature / Lindsay V. Reckson

Published New York : New York University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages) Series Performance and American Cultures Performance and American cultures. Contents Introduction : being beside -- Reconstructing secularisms -- Archival enthusiasm -- The ghost dance and realism's techno-spiritual frontier -- Touching a button -- Born, again -- Coda : behind, before, beside Summary Explores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late 19th- and early 20th-century American realism, 'Realist Ecstasy' travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism's relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a wide-ranging repertoire of media practices - including literature, photography, audio recording, and early film - Lindsay V. Reckson argues that the real was repetitively enacted and reenacted through bodily practice Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 05, 2020) Subject American literature -- History and criticism. Realism in literature. Religion in literature. Race in literature. Performance in literature. American literature Performance in literature Race in literature Realism in literature Religion in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 1479842451 9781479842452

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